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Madonna Announces New Deal With Live Nation

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: October 17, 2007

Madonna and concert promoter Live Nation Inc. announced a deal Tuesday that will give the company an all-encompassing stake in the music of the Material Girl, the latest big-name artist to break ranks with a major record label.

Financial terms were not disclosed in the joint statement released by Madonna and Live Nation.

The deal is worth about $120 million over 10 years.

The official announcement came after weeks of speculation that Madonna would abandon Warner Music Group Corp., which refused to match the Live Nation deal.

'The paradigm in the music business has shifted and as an artist and a business woman, I have to move with that shift,' Madonna said.
Jorja Fox Saying Farewell To 'CSI'

Jorja Fox is waving goodbye to 'CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.'

Fox, 39, tells EW.com she has quit the Las Vegas-based forensics drama, saying she wants to explore other opportunities.

'There are all these things I want to do,' she said in a story posted Monday on the Web site. 'Some are personal. Some are professional. And I really need to do some of them before I get too old.'

Spears Gets Photographed, Printed

Britney Spears is no stranger to being photographed, but it's not often she has her fingerprints taken at the same time.

On Monday night, Spears reported to a Los Angeles police station to face charges of hit and run and driving without a valid license, police said.

Officer Mike Lopez said Spears turned herself in around 9 p.m. and left about 45 minutes later. Spears was fingerprinted and photographed, he said. 'She was fine, cooperative,' Lopez said. 'She did her business and came out.'

The charges stem from an Aug. 6 wreck during which paparazzi filmed Spears steering her car into another vehicle as she tried to turn into a spot in a Studio City parking lot. The video showed her walking away after assessing the damage to her own car.

The owner of the other car, Kim Robard-Rifkin, filed a police report three days later.

DeGeneres Pleads For Dog's Return

Ellen DeGeneres is in the doghouse with a pet rescue agency after giving a pooch away to her hairdresser because it didn't get along with her cats.

The talk show hostess and her partner Portia de Rossi adopted Iggy, a Brussels Griffon mix, on Sept. 20. But when things didn't work out, DeGeneres gave the dog to her hairdresser.

In doing so, DeGeneres violated an agreement with the Mutts and Moms dog rescue agency by not telling them of the handoff. When the agency called DeGeneres to ask about Iggy, she said she found another home for the dog. The agency sent a representative to the hairdresser's home Sunday and took the dog away.

On her show Tuesday, DeGeneres said her hairdresser's daughters, ages 11 and 12, had bonded with Iggy and were heartbroken the dog was taken. 'I feel totally responsible for it and I'm so sorry. I'm begging them to give that dog back to that family,' she said.

Today's Birthdays

Daredevil Evel Knievel is 69. Country singer Alan Jackson is 49. Reggae singer Ziggy Marley is 39. Singer Chris Kirkpatrick ('N Sync) is 36. Rapper Eminem is 35. Singer Wyclef Jean is 35.

Source: The Associated Press

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